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	Research Project 23
		Frequently, however, urban blight is used in specific reference to the properties of which a city is comprised and their abandonment.
		Urban blight is transmitted through vicious circles in which urban decay leads to social changes (in behavior, the economic base, etc.) which then result in further decay.
		They may, however, make a valid contribution to efforts to redress urban blight, and may have a particularly important role to play in encouraging community pride and the sense that other schemes to redress abandonment are being undertaken in conjunction with the efforts of local residents and not simply by autonomous and anonymous local authorities.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/tcn/Research_Reports/resrch23.htm (8549 words)

	24/11/2006 -- Blight of 'urban sprawl' threatening Europe's social balance
		The blight of "urban sprawl" is threatening Europe's environmental, social and economic balance, a new report warned today.
		The continuous and rapid advance of the urban landscape is an ignored danger which now requires a European Union-wide policy to coordinate and control planning, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
		The report, Urban Sprawl In Europe - The Ignored Challenge, stresses that sprawl is not a localised problem, but one that affects almost all cities in Europe.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=64159 (558 words)

	Center for Sustainable Urban Agriculture
		The expansion of urban agriculture and alternative food systems is a worldwide phenomenon that has caught the attention of policy makers, activists and funders as a new response to issues of food security, economic development, poverty alleviation, urban blight, waste recycling and environmental preservation.
		Exploring the benefits of urban farming activities on the general nutrition and food self sufficiency of various social groups, and on the empowerment of poorer sectors to feed themselves and thus reduce the need for food subsidies.
		Since many urban dwellers already produce their own chickens, eggs, or fish in urban settings, often in the informal economy for which little data exists, it is important to determine the protein potential of such operations.
	www.cityfarmer.org /CenterSustUA.html (4165 words)

	Blighting the way: urban renewal, economic development, and the elusive definition of blight. - Journal, Magazine, ...
		Blight is less an objective condition than it is a legal pretext for various forms of commercial tax abatement that, in most settings, divert money from schools and county-funded social services.
		Political attention returned to urban conditions during the Great Depression, accompanied by the efforts of local, state, and federal officials to refine the definition of urban blight.
		The pioneers of postwar urban renewal, let alone Jacob Riis and his contemporaries, (82) would be more than a little surprised at the ways in which public money is now dedicated to the cause of eradicating urban blight, (83) Part of the problem lies in the tangle of intergovernmental relations typical of urban public policy.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-525135_ITM (1892 words)

	Urban Blight: Foul Locales - RPG Reviews - GameWyrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Urban Blight is a connection of interesting and sometimes rather worrying locations your adventuring group might visit while in a city, or more appropriately, in an urban setting.
		Urban Blight does do an inn or so but your characters are less likely to flirt with the staff than they are to be slyly drugged, dragged off and sold into the slave trade.
		Since Urban Blight is a collection of encounters and locations its means that even if your players never get involved with the events in the bazaar then there's still seventeen other ways to get your money worth from the book.
	www.gamewyrd.com /review/98 (1285 words)

	Urban decay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Urban decay is associated with Western cities, especially those in Europe and North America, and during the 1970s and 1980s when major changes in their economies created conditions that favored urban decay.
		Urban areas allow for economical use of infrastructure such as common plumbing and sewage (and in modern times communications and electricity), which may not have been viable to provide in rural areas.
		Urban decay and its effects were immortalized in the 1980s' popular culture, especially in the films of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_decay (1753 words)

	blight and eminent domain
		The power of eminent domain is often used by cities in connection with blighted areas and to accomplish their plans for urban renewal projects.
		The blight condemnation for the study area is currently being challenged-the residents and businesses that occupy the area do not believe that their neighborhood is substandard or insanitary.
		Under some definitions of blight, however, our site could qualify-the irregularity of lots, inadequacy of streets, diversity of land ownership with residential mixing with industrial, pollution all fall under the definition of blight and the study area has some of these characteristics.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/architecture/bass/newrochelle/extra/emin_dom.html (799 words)

	U.S. Mayors Articles \| Urban Litter Forum Examines Links to Crime and Economic Development (2/22/99)
		The Urban Litter Forum, which convened in Hollywood, Florida, January 11-12, was sponsored by the recently established Urban Litter Partnership between The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and Keep America Beautiful (KAB).
		Participants discussed the need for additional research to measure both the impacts of urban blight and the improvements that are made through prevention and cleanup programs.
		Once the real costs of urban blight and benefits of cleanup are measured, additional resources could be allocated to provide effective solutions for it.
	www.usmayors.org /USCM/US_Mayor_newspaper/documents/02_22_99/litter.htm (683 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Urban blight and prime ministerial renewal - Thursday \| September 21, 2006
		Urban environmental problems require political solutions that address uneven power relations and ineffective structures of urban governance.
		But it is his scintillating analysis of the city [about which I would like to say more later] through the eyes of the least powerful from the vantage point of a then mid-20s white man who was brought here as a young child by missionary parents, Roy and Jane Dodman, that captured my imagination.
		The Faculty of the Built Environment, with a Department of Urban and Regional Planning, is hosting a series of presentations on Kingston by Prof.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060921/cleisure/cleisure2.html (566 words)

	Community Revitalization
		The term "Urban Blight" is used to describe those negative images that can instill fear and create stress in residents and visitors.
		Urban blight, refers to the downward spiraling malady afflicting many of our city and inner suburban neighborhoods.
		Urban Blight drives out active residents and tax-paying businesses because most people want to live and work in a pleasing visual environment if they can.
	www.urbanblight.org /revit.htm (367 words)

	Beastiemania.com - Who Is Who - Urban Blight
		When one opens up the Licensed to Ill cd booklet he or she is greeted with Sunny Bak's photograph of the Beastie Boys standing in front of one of the remnants left over from the 1939 World's Fair.
		At one point during the early 1980s, Urban Blight had become very prominent and could be seen playing various venues around New York such as CBGB's.
		Yet, if you are willing to do a little searching, Keene Carse and Urban Blight have recorded and appeared on several albums in addition to their memorable contribution to Licensed to Ill.
	www.beastiemania.com /whois/urban_blight (303 words)

	Urban Reign E3 2005 Preshow Impressions - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the storyline is still hazy at this point, the basic gist is that your main character is a tough for hire, recruited by a local gang to be a bodyguard for the big boss.
		The game moves at a steady clip and features ruined urban landscapes, such as junkyards, abandoned buildings, and dank alleyways, which are inhabited by gritty streetwise character models.
		Urban Reign is built firmly on the foundations of metropolis-themed beat-'em-ups that have come before it, such as The Bouncer and Streets of Rage.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/urbanreign/preview_6124406.html (954 words)

	Number 2 Pencil: (Sub)urban blight
		* 10.5 percent of female high school students in urban schools said they had become pregnant, compared to 9.1 percent of female students in suburban schools.
		Parental concern about the rising influence of sex, drugs, and delinquency in urban schools has long been recognized as a significant factor in the last few decades’ population flight from the cities to the suburbs.
		Parents are fleeing urban schools not just because of low academic performance but also because they believe suburban schools are safer and more wholesome.
	www.kimberlyswygert.com /archives/001827.html (404 words)

	All About Urban Renewal : Portland Development Commission
		Urban renewal is a state-authorized, redevelopment and finance program designed to help communities improve and redevelop areas that are physically deteriorated, suffering economic stagnation, unsafe or poorly planned.
		PDC uses urban renewal as a tool to focus public attention and resources in blighted or underused areas to stimulate private investment and improve neighborhood livability.
		You can determine whether your property is located within a designated Urban Renewal Area by searching for a specific address using our GIS Mapping tool, and then clicking on the Development link in the top navigation of the resulting query results window.
	www.pdc.us /about_pdc/urban_renewal.asp (417 words)

	The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
		The neighborhood is a picture of originality, creativity and eclecticism - not of urban blight, say some of its residents and business owners.
		The blight label drew crowds at city meetings and a pile of letters to the editor as the word brought to mind images of a crime-ridden hovels.
		Urban renewal districts work because they allow public and private entities to work together, Nelson of Thinktank said.
	bozemandailychronicle.com /articles/2005/10/02/news/01blight.txt (1425 words)

	National Policy Analysis #385: Brownfields Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl - January 2002
		As concern over "urban sprawl" intensifies, the Bush Administration is coming to the rescue by making it easier to revitalize decaying city infrastructures.
		The White House is also expected to seek twice the existing level of federal funding levels for brownfield clean-ups, from $98 million this year to $200 million next year.
		Even as shortages of prime urban real estate were forcing businesses and families to move out of the cities, these downtown brownfields were remaining idle due to legal and regulatory uncertainties that plagued redevelopment options.
	www.nationalcenter.org /NPA385.html (804 words)

	www.myspace.com/urbanblightplayers
		The URBAN BLIGHT PLAYERS debut album, BIG SMALL TOWN is a musical travelogue of a life spent in the big small town of St. Louis, Missouri.
		Old friends, lovers, family, houses, hopes, streets, and neighbors are all waiting to bump into you somewhere in these 11 original songs by songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Bill Michalski.
		The URBAN BLIGHT PLAYERS will be bringing their BIG SMALL TOUR to your block in 2005.
	www.myspace.com /urbanblightplayers (409 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:28:37 -0500 From: Kafka Dreams To: void Subject: urban blight Architecture competition and sort of a meditation on dead malls...
		This competition challenges the design and planning community to counter the trend towards the deriliction, abandonment, and "death" of the regional mall and invites approaches to rethinking its urbanistic and architectural milieu.
		This competition seeks the reanimation of the presumed "dead" and "dying", reassessing the role these structures play in civic life and the possibilities modification or conversion might provide to communities across America.
	www.apocalypse.org /~kjc/thoughts/urban_blight (140 words)

	Urban Blight or Entrepreneur Flight? [Bluegrass Institute]
		Of all the easily noticeable signs of economic decline, perhaps urban blight is the most obvious.
		This is an expensive game politicians play hoping their constituents will not notice the swinging doors into and out of their business communities.
		One solution to the problem of urban blight is to make sure existing business stays put.
	www.bipps.org /article.asp?ID=174 (696 words)

	COLUMNS AND EDITORIALS - Choices and Voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It’s an automatic that once a property is within the Urban Growth Area, whether after a fair hearing, or quickly slid in at the end without a hearing, the automatic sequence starts: "Well, that’s the law for a UGA property ‘in transition’.
		Sequim is no longer the small, one stoplight junction with a feed mill and a coop serving the local farmers.
		The cornerstone to this program is to arrest Sequim’s recent urban blight explosion.
	choices-voices.net /blight.htm (789 words)

	Need in Deed Success Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Who would expect 8th graders to be thinking about whether there is a connection between the presence of blight and the prevalence of violent crime in their neighborhood?
		Some members of the class worked with local poet Lena Sze to compose poems that expressed their feelings about the young victims of drive-by shootings and about their efforts to improve their community.
		Support Need in Deed by buying books about urban blight at Amazon.com.
	www.needindeed.org /suc_urban.shtml (287 words)

	NPR : Detroit Struggles to Overcome Urban Blight
		Detroit's efforts to rid itself of dilapidated homes and buildings have drawn both supporters and critics, who worry about the lack of affordable housing for low-income residents.
		Hear various perspectives on the issue from: George Galster, professor of urban affairs at Wayne State University; Amru Meah, director of Detroit's Building & Safety Engineering Department; and Maryann Mahaffey, president of the Detroit City Council.
		Morning Edition, January 3, 2005 · This week, Detroit is launching a new crackdown on one of the city's ugliest problems -- urban blight.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4254620 (284 words)

	A Blight on Urban Renewal / Are Bay Area cities abusing eminent domain as a redevelopment tool?
		Martinez is also in the midst of a redevelopment controversy wherein some residents fear that adding the city's decision to include their downtown neighborhood to a redevelopment zone will in the end lead to the loss of their homes to big development.
		Sometimes it seems that cities are abusing (rather than judiciously using) the tools of redevelopment--with its promise of higher taxes and accelerated change and its power to float bonds--like it is a designer drug invented for desperate government officials.
		In the eagerness to "clean up" and "fix" the city with mega-plans, these officials need to remember that the greatest urban centers are unkempt places--patchworks of thoughtful planning and unpredictable accident, large-scale creations looking toward the future and smaller relics echoing the past.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/03/04/carollloyd.DTL (1723 words)

	An alternative for dealing with blight (BatesLine)
		David Sucher at City Comforts, the blog, reminds us that there is a better alternative to eminent domain for dealing with blight -- nuisance abatement.
		If a property is blighted in the literal sense of the word, require the owner to clean it up, or clean it up for him and send him the bill.
		This alternative wouldn't satisfy some public officials, because the aim of some urban renewal is not to clean up blight, but to get ownership out of the hands of one group of owners into the hands of another, and "blight" is defined broadly enough to make this possible.
	www.batesline.com /archives/002156.html (594 words)

	NY Times - The Greening of a Landmark of Urban Blight
		The Greening of a Landmark of Urban Blight
		President Jimmy Carter's visit in October 1977 to an abandoned lot at Charlotte Street and Boston Road transformed an anonymous stretch of New York City into a national symbol of urban blight.
		A couple of blocks away, a small patch of land became notorious as both Hollywood backdrop and neighborhood dumping ground.
	www.whedco.org /articles/NYT-April192006.html (687 words)

	The American Enterprise: Relax Regulations to Clean Up Urban Blight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Too often, various urban renewal and welfare programs have only made things worse by spawning dependency on government help.
		Although not serious threats to public health or safety, legal rules make these properties too financially risky for investment and job creation, creating permanently abandoned blights on the urban landscape.
		These tax incentives would mean foregoing only $1 to $2 billion in federal revenues—an amount easily made up by eliminating wasteful programs such as corporate welfare in the Commerce Department, whose costly efforts to fight urban blight have yielded little.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.16273/article_detail.asp (754 words)

	Detroit steps up its fight against blight, urban decay - 01/09/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Department of Administrative Hearings officially opened its blight court on Jefferson Avenue on Tuesday and began issuing citations against polluters and abandoned building owners who violate city codes.
		The department will begin holding hearings next month, and the city expects a telephone line for complaints to be ready this spring.
		George, of Blight Busters, said his group intends to monitor the effectiveness of the department by tracking two dozen long-standing eyesores in northwest Detroit and downtown.
	www.detnews.com /2005/metro/0501/09/E04-54595.htm (596 words)

	www.myspace.com/urbanblight
		im going to make a point at being at all 5 urban blight shows this year.
		urban blight i want you to contribute to an upcoming all canuk compilation.
		i had a dream last night that urban blight played my old high school's cafeteria and they played through this window in the wall where food is served, and i cleared out tables and moshed while eating.
	www.myspace.com /urbanblight (393 words)

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